Into Each Other’s Lives | A Poem by Guy Farmer

They walked into each other’s livesWithout a single clue as to how toTreat someone well. The only toolThey possessed was the ability toRepeat what they had seen theirRespective parents do, poorly.

They proceeded to make each otherOccasionally joyful but mostlyProfoundly miserable. Such is theFate of those who live unconsciously,Perpetuating the ordeal one reaction at a time,Each new mistake following the last.